Tombstone epitaph., 1887-09-10
FIZz, POP AND BANG.
THE PRESENTATION OF POINTS
 PECULIAR TO PYRoTEcHNY.

LIE PRESENTATION UT tOiN ;
 PECULIAR TO PYRoTEcHNY. How Spectacular Combustion Finds a
 Market-Fireworks No Longer DIonopo-
 liked by the Fourth of July-Collections
 for Corporation Celebrations.
 One does not have to overhaul his menl- ory to any great extent to reach back to the time when Independence day was the one day of the year when skyrockets and pinwheels asserted themselves as a sym bol of our country's greatness. Along in the fall, it is true, when candidates for public office sought the suffrage of their fellow citizens, the Roman candle supple mented the oil torch as an adjunct of pO- litical processions. But, as general rule, the fireworks that were not burned on Fourth of July night were carefully packed away for next year. It is not so any more. Pyrotechnic displays are prom inent attractions at summer resorts ,all through the season, and the father of 6 family who takes his boys and girls in the country to pass the heated months not unfrequently adds e box of fireworks to the Lares and Penates that he carries along.
 ''This fireworks package business has grown to some considerable proportions, hasn't it'" asked the truth seeker.
 BOX COLLECTIONS
 ''Well, guess you'd think so," replied the pyrotechnician. "We instituted the plan of putting up these box collections about sixteen years ago, and 1t has been growing more popular every year. Want to know whyf We'll, most people who buy fireworks for Fourth of July cele- bration very naturally put off the pur- chase until the last minute. For that matter, most purchasers of any kind of goods do the same thing but just stop and think how the rule applies to fire works whom you consider what they are. 1t is not to be expected that man would want . box of them lying around loose in his house for two or three weeks Yes, If there's anything that's bought at the eleventh hour, its fireworks. Then, again, not one person in twenty knows what he wants. There is a general desire for something that will make show, and perhaps make @ noise, but the average man knows only the commonplace names of pieces that will produce certain effects. They know what bengola lights, triangles and mines are, but we can't expect the president of 8 bank, or a man who has made a fortune in potatoes, to expend his valuable time in trying to learn the differ ence between a saucisson mine and a tourbillion rocket.
 So we, as it were, do their thinking for them, and put up a collection according to our knowledge of results consistent with the price charged for it. It's very much cheaper for the purchaser, too. Now there's collection packed ready for de- livery. We charge 50 cents for it just as it stands. It contains thirty pieces-none of them very elaborate, it is true, but what do you suppose you'd have to pay for them If you came in here and puttered around our stock, selecting this one here and that one there, and wasting at least half an hours time in doing its Well, here's our catalogue, and you can see at once that, if you bought each one of those thirty pieces at retail you'd have to pay something over $1 for the lot, and they wouldn't be 60 compactly packed for do- livery either. How could they be, under the circumstances'
 CORPORATION CELEBRATIONS.
 "How expensive collection do you put
 "To any amount that customer wants. for that matter, with corresponding rates of discount as between wholesale and re. tail prices, but for regular catalogue goods we have $100 collection. This is ade- quate to complete town or corporation celebration, and contains goods that would cost, at retail, just double the money. There are pieces in it whose prices range from 80 to $16 when purchased singly.''
 What do you mean by corporation celebrations'i''
 "Pu tell you. There are lots of manu- facturing concerns that come to US every year and buy collection of fireworks for their mills up in the country. Only the other day mill superintendent came in and gave me $50 order. It keeps the boys at home, he said, and they spend their money right in town instead of com ing to Boston Very frequently the local tradesmen chip in with the mills for a fireworks display for this reason.
 But, Of course, we don't have to de- pend upon the Fourth of July alone for business. You know it has become the regular thing to have pyrotechnic displays at the summer resorts, and excursion parties often consider box of fireworks as necessary to good time as basket of champagne"
 "What have you to say about fire crackersi'
 "Fire crackers are no object to our trade nowadays. We have to keep them, or course, because they are bound to be popular, but there is no profit in them. Have you seen that American cannon cracker, by the way, that was introduced last yearf There's one point about them that's worth consideration. Not the noise especially-of course we expect that but the fact that no danger from fire attends their use. When they go off they go for good and all, leaving no vestige of 8 spark behind them. We're ahead of the Chinese in this respect at least. '- Boston Herald.
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